This important new book examines the status of refugees from a philosophical perspective. The contributors explore the conditions faced by refugees and clarify the conceptual, practical, and ethical issues confronting the contemporary global community with respect to refugees. The book takes up topics ranging from practical matters, such as the social and political production of refugees, refugee status and the tension between citizen rights and human rights, and the handling of detention and deportation, to more conceptual and theoretical concerns, such as the ideology, rhetoric, and propaganda that sustain systems of exclusion and expulsion, to the ethical dimensions that invoke hospitality and transnational responsibility. Ideal for students and scholars in Political and Social Philosophy and Migration Studies more broadly, the book provides a critical commentary on material responses to contemporary refugee crises as a means of opening pathways to more pointed assessments of both the political and ideological underpinnings of statelessness.

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Information

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield International

Year

2019

ISBN

9781786611642

Edition

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Political Philosophy

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. HUMANITARIANISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Chapter One. Refugees and the Politics of Indignity
Chapter Two. Refugees and the Right to Politics
Chapter Three. Humanitarian Melancholia: Humanitarianism and the Need for Morality of Thinking
Part II. HOSPITALITY, CARE, AND RESPONSIBILITY
Chapter Four. Hospitality and the Political Economy of Care
Chapter Five. Welcoming Refugees: Mindful Citizenship and the Political Responsibility of Hospitality*
Chapter Six. On the Limits of Hospitality: Arendt and Balibar on a Universal Right to Politics
Part III. REFUGEE DETENTION AND EXCLUSION TODAY
Chapter Seven. Abolish Refugee Detention: Rethinking International Law and Carceral Humanitarianism
Chapter Eight. Beyond the Ethics of Admission: Statelessness, Refugee Camps, and Moral Obligations
Chapter Nine. Critiquing Agamben’s Refugee: The Ontological Decolonization of Homo Sacer*
Part IV. EXPERIENCES OF IMMIGRATION
Chapter Ten. Political Refugees and Economic Migrants: A Distinction without a Difference?
Chapter Eleven. The Rights of Immigrants and the Duties of Nations: On Cesar Chavez, Transnational Justice, and the Temporality of Rights*
Chapter Twelve. The Origin That Never Was: The Loss of Heimat and New Beginnings
Chapter Thirteen. Strangers to Ourselves: Contemporary Horizons
Part V. LISTENING TO REFUGEE VOICES
Chapter Fourteen. I Am Not Your Canvas: Narratives, Nostalgia, and the (Re)claiming of Refugee Voices
Chapter Fifteen. How to Be a Refug(e)e for a Stranger?
Chapter Sixteen. Echotext. Between Here and There. A Meteoric Meditation: In Response to How to Be a Refuge(e) for a Stranger?
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors